My new go-to tweet. look, it is complicated, there's a lot of uncertainty and we're choosing between various bad options.

59 years old and just realised it’s ’a crescendo’ in smooth criminal.

Hi Eric, there is NO description of the clinical data here. What was the situation? Pseudomonas? I assume say based on the story, but I am very interested as I can't find *any* details of this?

Let's hear it for Adam and Hayley, superstar siblings who are both taking on running challenges in memory of their granny 🙌 Adam has completed 5km on #PHDayUK every year since he was 8, and he's doing it all again, this time with little sister Hayley, age 7...

Alex seems to have made a mistake and posted his court mandated apology in the middle of the night, so I thought I'd help him out with a repost this morning. I'm sure he wants the most people to see it as possible.

🎬 “Fundraising has enabled me to share Joanne’s story and the road we’ve all been on as a family” Watch PHA UK supporter Rob Witcomb share the very personal reasons behind his fundraising activities: phauk.org/rob

A little over a year ago, @cremieuxrecueil shared the results of a bombshell study purporting to demonstrate that Black-White IQ differences in the United Kingdom have a largely genetic basis. In my latest article, I argue that this result is not trustworthy and challenge Crémieux to prove otherwise. 🧵 A Thread

An important problem for open science

A recent series of papers suggested that nuclear power plants are responsible for more than 100 thousand cancers. Using their method, every landmark we tested causes cancer,

Sophisticated statistics can produce extremely precise nonsense when the design fails to identify the causal mechanism. open.substack.com/pub/thebre…

Here is my view on what’s wrong with funding of scientific research in the UK, and how I would change the focus if it was up to me! There is a long list of things that UKRI needs to weigh when making decisions about funding for research and facilities, and driving growth is not one of them. The reason is that the whole of UKRI’s portfolio is essential for driving growth - indeed the research ecosystem is one of the necessary foundations of growth. The point I made at the Labour Conference is quite simple. UKRI’s budget is 0.65% of government expenditure, at a little under £10 Bn per year. That is a very tiny leaver when seen through the prism of attempting to use it to make a step change in economic growth - especially when the leaders of UKRI and the Research Councils are not economists and should not be economists! Their expertise lies in research. BUT, and this is the key point - if by fiddling around trying to use this tiny budget (in relative terms) to make a noticeable change in growth you damage the fundamentals, then you run the real risk of damaging the growth potential of the rest of the economy. Universities, research labs, education and inspiration are all essential for growth. This is what UKRI should be focused on because they are the custodians of this VERY valuable but fragile world-leading ecosystem. So, I would say to UKRI, do the thing you are supposed to do, do it well on behalf of the rest of the economy, and do nothing else.

Nein, das ist kein Berg in irgendeiner Wüste. Das ist das Matterhorn am 27. September 2026. Via Niko Froitzheim

My new shorthand for morons on x- so they can be aware of exactly where their head is, given the likelihood of more things going over it in future

Interesting new way of looking at research output. globalresearchpartnerships.c…

Makes me chuckle that in a British purity debate, it always comes down to- Britain is for the migrant populations that I come from not the migrant populations you come from.

In 1980, 21% of NIH-funded principal investigators were under age 35. By 2015, this proportion was 3%. The dramatic ageing of independent scientists is bad because old people are simply worse at science than young people. Latest meta-scientific deep-dive from me 🧵 ⬇️

Nigel Farage ranked 748th of 751 MEPs for attendance, went to 1 of 42 fishery committee meetings & was fined £35K for fiddling his expenses As an MP he has held no surgeries, skipped 80% of votes and had ten jobs on the side Don't vote Reform unless you like work-shy grifters

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-a…